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BATON ROUGE - Junior All-SEC striker Jorian Baucom converted two penalty kicks on either side of halftime and junior midfielder Zoe Higgins put the match out of reach with her first career goal late in the second half to lead the LSU Tigers to a 3-0 shutout of Ole Miss in their SEC home opener Friday night at the LSU Soccer Stadium.Baucom made it a perfect 4-for-4 from the penalty spot this season and finished the match with a team-leading six goals for the fall with conversions in the 30th and 70th minutes of play, while Higgins secured the points for the hosts with her first goal as an LSU Tiger when she headed home Marlena Cuturas corner kick in the 77th minute of the second half.The Tigers (5-4, 1-1 SEC) snapped a three game losing streak to the Rebels (4-5, 0-2) with their first win in the series since 2012 while taking a 10-9-4 advantage in 23 matches played between the two sides.Fridays win marked a return to winning ways for the Tigers as they picked up their fourth win in their last five outings in all competitions dating back to another 3-0 win at Indiana back on Sept. 2. They entered SEC play on the back of three-straight non-conference wins, including a 2-1 win at reigning Big East Champion Butler on Sept. 4 and a 1-0 win at Western Kentucky on Sept. 8.As weve been building early in the season, weve been confident that we have a good team. Weve just needed to find the right mix of players, get into the flow of the season and get a little familiar with each other. Weve had maybe five new kids in the lineup at any given time, said LSU head coach Brian Lee. Were starting to gel a little bit. I think tonight is the best weve competed and the best weve played.The home side seized the initiative at the half-hour mark when Baucom drew a penalty with an incisive cutback in the right side of the area where she was hauled down by freshman defender Madison Meador for the Rebels. Baucom sent goalkeeper the wrong way on the ensuing spot kick and finished calmly to give the Tigers a 1-0 lead.Melissa Capocaccia was the victim of a lovely bit of individual skill from senior Summer Clarke midway through the second half as LSUs All-SEC striker skipped past the Rebel defender near the end-line before dropping to the turf under an awkward challenge in the left side of the area. Baucom was true from the spot for the second time as she again got the best of Merritt for her sixth goal of the season in the 77th minute.Baucoms strike rate is impressive as she has now found the net six times in nine appearances this season. She remains LSUs active career scoring leader with 29 goals scored in 51 career appearances as a Tiger.Every time I step up to take a PK, I have a certain routine I like to do. I just pick a spot and try to place it as best I can. Theres not any certain way I like to go, Baucom explained. We definitely had something to prove tonight coming back for our SEC home opener. We just came in with a mindset that we had to be aggressive, get into every tackle, win headers, get stuck into tackles.The win means everything. I think we just need to take this momentum into Sunday, and just start thinking of it one game at a time. If we stay consistent with the way we played tonight, we can get a lot of wins.The match was beyond the Rebels reach in the 77th minute when freshman Jade Clarke won LSUs fourth and final corner kick of the night with her run down the left flank. Cutura picked out Higgins near the top of the six-yard box for a thumping header into the back of the net for her first goal of the season and a commanding 3-0 lead.It was exciting, I finally got one, Higgins said of scoring her first goal for the Tigers. Marlena does a great job of putting those corner kicks right in the danger zone. We feel like all we have to do is step out and get our head on it, and its probably going in. Thats all I really had to do. We came out strong and just put the game away like we hoped to in the second half. Its SEC play, so we know we have to buckle down.Redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Caroline Brockmeier was steady once again in defense as she saved all four shots on target she faced from the Rebels in the 90 minutes for her fourth clean sheet of the season.The Tigers return to non-conference play on Sunday afternoon when they welcome Lamar to the LSU Soccer Stadium for a match that is set to kick off at 1 p.m. CT on the SEC Network+. They will head back on the road next week to face 10th-ranked South Carolina on Thursday at 6 p.m. CT before a trip to Vanderbilt next Sunday, Sept. 25, with kickoff set for 1 p.m. TreQuan Smith Saints Jersey . 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A change of tactics led to a change of fortune for Mrs McDougal, who led from start to finish in winning Saturdays Grade 3, $200,000 Noble Damsel Stakes at Belmont Park.Under Irad Ortiz Jr., Mrs McDougal carved out splits of 24.42 seconds for the quarter, 48.64 for the half-mile, 1:12.27 for six furlongs, and covered the mile in a solid 1:34.99 over a turf course rated good after overnight rains.Mrs McDougal beat stablemate Zindaya by two lengths as trainer Chad Brown finished 1-2 in the Noble Damsel, one of three stakes victories on the day for Brown. He also won the Grade 2, $1.25 million Pennsylvania Derby with Connect and the Grade 2 Commonwealth Derby at Laurel with Deeply Undervalued.For Mrs McDougal, a daughter of Medaglia dOro owned by Mr. and Mrs. William Warren, the win was her fifth from 11 starts. She was coming out of two Grade 1 tries where she attempted to come from off the pace. She hadnt won since taking the Plenty of Grace, a listed stakes at Aqueduct in April, also from off the pace.ddddddddddddBut it was her victory in an allowance race at Aqueduct in April 2015 that gave Brown the confidence to put her on the lead. That day, Mrs McDougal went gate to wire, winning by 7-1/4 lengths.We talked about possibly going to the lead, there was no clear frontrunner in the race, Brown said. Changing tactics, and it worked.Mrs McDougal returned $4.20 as the even-money favorite.Zindaya rallied for second, 2-1/2 lengths ahead of Stormy Victoria.Zindaya ran a good race, Brown said. There wasnt a lot of pace in the race and you have the favorite carving out the fractions. Its a lot to do, but she finished real well. Both fillies are real quality fillies. A mile seems to fit both of them well and well try to keep both at that middle distance now. ' ' '